Ford is currently hyping up the Mustang Mach-E ahead of customer deliveries and the automaker’s new CEO, Jim Farley, is not shying away from comparing the upcoming electric car to Tesla.
In recent years, several legacy automakers venturing into electric vehicles have shied away from comparisons with Tesla — even though the California-based automaker remains the clear benchmark for new…
BMW is going to unveil its Tesla-fighting BMW iNext next week
November 2, 2020
BMW confirmed that it plans to unveil the production version of its BMW iNext, an electric vehicle that the German automaker has previously described as its response to Tesla, next week.
Since the launch of the BMW i3, the German automaker has been taking things extremely…
Here’s what happened when a country let people trade in old cars for electric bikes, scooters
November 2, 2020
Believe it or not, a cash-for-clunkers plan helped get old and polluting cars off the road, replacing them with efficient and traffic-reducing personal electric vehicles like e-bikes and e-scooters.
Shocking, right?
Trading in old cars for new electric bikes
Perhaps it’s…
Today, we take a look at Tesla Powerhub, a lesser-known Tesla energy product to monitor and control energy assets at a large scale.
Tesla’s well-known energy products are the Powerwall, Powerpack, Megapack, solar panels and solar roof.
Earlier this year, we also learned of Autobidder, Tesla’s platform to autonomously monetize battery assets.
But this new product is not alone in Tesla’s…
Just in case you didn’t notice, the US election is next week, on Tuesday, November 3. We at Electrek ran a Climate Crisis Weekly roundup on October 10 with the headline, “Humanity’s future rests on American voters.” Someone on the subreddit r/JoeBiden declared…
Tesla pushes new Full Self-Driving Beta update, Elon Musk says could slash interventions by a third
November 2, 2020
Tesla has started pushing a new software update under its Full Self-Driving Beta program and CEO Elon Musk says it could already cut driver interventions by a third.
It has been less than two weeks since Tesla has started pushing the first version of its “Full…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 31, 2020
November 2, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy, including Tesla’s service push, changes to Tesla’s regen braking, Model 3 2021 gets its EPA rating, and more.
Discover all the new and innovative…
Tesla Gigafactory Texas is progressing on pace 100 days in, but the hard part is still to come
October 31, 2020
We are now roughly 100 days into the Tesla Gigafactory Texas construction project, and it is progressing on pace, but the hard part is still to come as Tesla tries to rapidly deploy production capacity at the new facility.
Electrek exclusively reported that Tesla’s…
Protect the earth or face deadlier pandemics — report
October 31, 2020
Twenty-two global leading experts held an urgent virtual workshop, convened by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), about the connection between the degradation of nature and increasing pandemic risks.
The resulting report (which you can read here) states that future pandemics will become more frequent, spread more rapidly, do more damage…
